Bioshock Infinite

BioShock Infinite is a first-person shooter video game developed by Irrational Games, and published by 2K Games. BioShock Infinite is the third installment in the BioShock series, and though it is not part of the storyline of previous BioShock games, it does feature similar gameplay concepts and themes. BioShock Infinite uses a Modified Unreal Engine 3 game engine and was released worldwide on March 26, 2013.

We tested BioShock Infinite with the Ultra game settings.

Benchmark Results:In Bioshock Infinite the two overclocked Radeon R9 290X cards do very well, but notice the ASUS R9 290X DirectCU II is about 2FPS faster than the Sapphire R9 290X Tri-X OC at both 1920×1080 and 2560×1600. It looks like the extra 10MHz on the core and 50MHz on the memory clock frequencies does help!

I was wondering the temp differences between the two when mounted in a vertical setting (like Silverstone FT-02), going on the design of heat pipes looks like the ASUS should do better, i’d also rather not buy the sapphire and then find that its temps are poor and have to swap it out.

suvam

is this dc2 or dc2 oc

Nathan Kirsch

The core clock is 1050MHz, so this is the DC2 OC. The part number is on page one, but just in case you can’t find it – R9290X-DC2OC-4GD5

thatguy

This site seriously has the worst graphics card graphs I’ve ever seen – too much information. Try putting the model of the card first, then the brand and whether it’s overclocked after.
e.g. PowerColor HD 7850 SCS3 1GB 860MHz/4800MHz could just as easily read as HD7850 1GB (PowerColor)

Nathan Kirsch

Thanks for the feedback. I’m building a new GPU test system for the NVIDIA Maxwell launch and will be starting over my charts then!

temp_conscious

Another nice thing would be to highlight the actual card under test to easily spot it within the other ~15 cards in the graph.

Veliponteva

Can any one help me to make my mind.
I’m on the look out for a new GPU and my system is as follows.
I7 4770 3.4/3.8Ghz stock cooler
2x4Gb ribjaw 1600Mhz ram
Gigabyte z87-hd3 mb
1x1Tb 7200rpm HDD
Disc drive
3x 140mm fans
650w corsair rm gold certified PSU which at 100%load is supposed to have 89.2% efficiency = 579.8w – just incase 20w =559.8w
The 290x could have plenty of power when at 80 or 90% load but is there any drawbacks if my PSU can’t supply the peak power usage?

Powercalculator shows that my setup at 90% usage would need 533w of power and at 100% 586w which’s falls short 7w from the on paper capability of my PSU

ramblerambleramble.

Am i better off going for 780 and have that extra power or pushing my system to it’s limits with the r9?

Ok I’m still new to GPU’s and what is better than what but can anyone tell where exactly the ASUS card beats the Sapphire card? like how does it beat it in terms of performance.

darklyspectre

essentially this card will probably be 699 USD because of the litecoin miners so the money advantage is gone like what happened with the sapphire.

seriously fucking litecoin sucks as shit.

I just got a 780 Ti classified since the sapphire was 700 bucks and I don’t mind the 40 extra bucks I paid for a custom PCB made for overclocking. Yes I know currently the standard bioses suck but the custom bios is enabling people to go to like 1400 on air.

if AMD didn’t stop the third parties from releasing their cards for so long then I would of probably gotten a AMD again. but I was happy with my 680 anyway

john

Aaand it beats the 780ti… sold! Asus direct cu… it also looks like it will leave less waste heat inside the case then the tri-x.

roki977 .

Where did you saw that? I am looking at the charts and 780Ti is faster in most cases, even 780 SW beats it many times. 780Ti is OC monster much more than any 290x and it beats it with ease when both pushed.

john

Let’s see “it beats it most of the time”… at this msrp difference it should beat it hands down not off and on… plus we have yet to see both pushed to the max. As the ti regularly passes the 1ghz limit sometimes to as high as 1080 from some reports so the ti is overclocking itself. Now to the other facts… powerdraw similar… die size 30% less for hawaii… and it also includes an audio dsp on top of that and to top it all up… it supports freesync, amd’s free answer to g-sync that apparently is already a vesa standard and most panel producers support or can upgrade easily to with no aditional hardware… and if rumors are to be believed the 290x doesn’t even have all compute cores active!!

But wait there is more… this card does better mining an compute in general… uses extremelly cheap memory compared to 780ti…

Yet it is still MUCH cheaper then 780ti… so yes beating 780ti shouldn’t even be possible…. yet somehow 290x beats or trades blows c4c… this IS impressive by any standard… and beating the ti in synthetics is huge! It shows the yet untaped potential… that’s what makes this card the asus directxu2 290x THE card to buy – at least for me atm

mjolnirxz

well said!

amd Sucks

There is NO freesynch
780ti is 15-20% faster when both Oc.

And this was 780ti Ref.card..

mtduong96

Invalid argument
*There is NO freesynch: Where is the proff
*780ti is 15-20% faster when both Oc:again where is the proff

Justin Shepherd

Where is the grammar?

Anonymous

Can you guys measure the dimensions of both cards. I want to know if they can fit in my MicroATX case